Prince Charles used to date Princess Diana’s sister but he called it off after she ‘spilled gossip’ about their relationship
MANY of us would turn our nose up at the idea of dating our sister's cast offs, but not Princess Diana.
Apparently she was introduced to future husband Charles by her oldest sibling Sarah Spencer - who had previously had a fling with the prince in 1977.
When the couple announced their engagement in 1981, Sarah - who gained the title "Lady" in 1975 when her grandfather died - reportedly said: "I introduced them, I'm cupid."
She had gone on to marry Neil Edmund McCorquodale in 1980, and the couple had two daughters, Emily and Celia, and a son, George.
Little is known about Lady Sarah's brief fling with the Prince of Wales, but allegedly Charles called it off after she "spilled gossip" about their relationship, according to .
One of the reporters she allegedly spoke to, James Whittaker, wrote in that he "scuppered the romance" between Lady Sarah, then 22, and Prince Charles.
Whittaker claimed she admitted she wouldn't marry her then-boyfriend “if he were the dustman or the King of England” during a lunch meeting, and also discussed her other relationships, previous alcoholism and battle with anorexia.
Charles was reportedly furious when he saw the article, and it has been alleged he told Sarah: “You have just done something incredibly stupid.”
Lady Sarah now lives in Grantham, Linconshire, where she served a one-year term as High Sheriff of Linconshire in 2009.
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Diana’s biographer, Andrew Morton, claimed Sarah was always one of the few people the late princess trusted, and the pair were very close.
When Diana died in 1997, Lady Sarah, and her other sister, Lady Jane Fellowes, accompanied Charles to collect her body from Paris.
Lady Sarah has said she felt nothing but shock in the hours and days between Diana's death and funeral.